Tom, You are correct however it is new installs or when the service is upgraded. When my water meter was installed a jumper 10 gauge wire was used to connect the copper above and below the meter. A few years later I had my service upgraded and the 8 foot ground rod was installed. My home is about 110 years old. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fowle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] electrical safety when plumbing with plastic
I think, in the U.S. now a days, the connection between the electrical ground and water system is no longer used. I was under the imression that the electrical safety ground should be tied only to the ground rod that's directly below the meter box. What I remember being very surprised at when we visited england in 1973, was the light wire they could use in appliance cords. Gaads I saw lamps wired with what I'd call bell wire. Of course the current requirements being half of what is usual here made the difference. I don't remember switches at outlets but may have forgotten. Except for the coin operated meters in cheap hotel rooms that is. Tom s To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links
